NES
NES is a team that participates in both the MIT Mystery Hunt and online hunts. The team was founded in 2019 as N3XT, named after Next House in MIT. NES placed in the top 20 for both the 2021 and 2022 Mystery Hunts.
History
NES's membership primarily consists of residents and recent alumni of Next House. In 2019, they competed in the 2019 MIT Mystery Hunt as N3XT. In 2020, they merged with another small Next House team to become NES. For online hunts, NES teams generally have the initialism NES, often thematic to the hunt theme. In addition, one subteam of NES generally competes as Needlessly Eating [object beginning with S]. For hunts that allow teams to submit an personalized image, this subteam includes a picture of a person eating all previous objects that have been needlessly eaten from past hunts.
Hunt performances
| Date | Hunt | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-01 | Huntinality 3 | 15 | as Needlessly Eating Storytellers |
| 2023-07-28 | Shardhunt | 14 | as Nine + Eight Shards |
| 2023-06-02 | ABCDEFG | 6 | |
| 2023-05-06 | Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023 | 24 | as Needlessly Eating Skype |
| 2023-05-06 | Microsoft Puzzlehunt 2023 | 28 | as Narwhal-Eager Sailors |
| 2023-02-10 | Grand Hunt | 21 | as Noble Electronic Scavengers |
| 2022-10-08 | EC Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 16 | as Nature Enjoyment Season |
| 2022-08-26 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2022 | 29 | as Needlessly Eating Scantrons |
| 2022-04-15 | Quantum Online Puzzle Hunt | 22 | as Needlessly Eating Sabermetricians |
| 2022-01-14 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2022 | 18 | |
| 2021-12-18 | Puzzle Rojak 1 | 25 | as Needlessly Eating Squirrels |
| 2021-10-01 | Teammate Hunt 2021 | 23 | as Needlessly Eating Sword-swallowers |
| 2021-09-10 | QoDE Puzzle Hunt | 30 | as Needlessly Eating Squirrels |
| 2021-08-21 | Puzzle Potluck 4 | 18 | as Needlessly Eating Spaghetti squash |
| 2021-07-23 | Galactic Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 27 | as Not Enough Sight |
| 2021-05-29 | Huntinality 2021 | 18 | as Nintendo's Evildoer Sibling |
| 2021-05-08 | Paradox Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 10 | as Needlessly Eating Ships-of-Theseus |
| 2021-01-15 | MIT Mystery Hunt 2021 | 15 | |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 29 | as Nation-Exploring Students |
| 2021-01-02 | UMD Puzzle Hunt 2021 | 30 | as Needlessly Eating Snakes |
| 2020-12-12 | CRUMS Puzzle Hunt 2020 | 6 | as Now Extract Somehow |
| 2020-10-23 | Teammate Hunt 2020 | 15 | as Needlessly Eating Swing states |
| 2020-09-18 | DP Puzzle Hunt | 10 | as Neptune's Extraterrestrial Surprise |
| 2019-07-20 | Smogon Puzzle Hunt 2019 | 6 | as National 3rosion Service |
